Netanyahu hopes visit will help end Israel's UN isolation

BAKU, Azerbaijan — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says his visit to Muslim nations is meant to show that Israel and Muslim nations can cooperate and ultimately end the automatic majority against Israel at the United Nations.

Netanyahu is visiting Azerbaijan and on Wednesday will travel to Kazakhstan.

Netanyahu tells reporters travelling with him that he hopes that this visit and its message – that Jews and Muslims can live together in peace etc. — will “influence” Arab states to change their public stance on Israel.

“My intention is first and foremost not to dismantle the wall of isolation around Israel. That is already happening, it is to end the automatic majority against Israel in the UN,” Netanyahu says.

— Raphael Ahren